World Electric Vehicle Journal Vol. 6 - ISSN 2032-6653 - © 2013 WEVA Page Page 0071 EVS27 Barcelona, Spain, November 17-20, 2013 Performance of a newly developed plug-in hybrid boat Shigeyuki Minami1, Kazuto Koizumi2, Toshiki Hanada3, Nakaba Matsuda4, Kyoji Ishizu5, Junya Nishi6, and Takuma Fujiwara7, 1 Osaka City University Advanced Research Institute (OCARINA), Osaka City, 558-8585 Japan
[email protected] 2 Osaka City University Advanced Research Institute (OCARINA) 3-7 Technology Survey & Research Group, Research & Development Department The Kansai Electric Power Co.,Inc. Abstract We have produced a new-type of plug-in hybrid boat. This boat has excellent environment characteristics running by electricity, while having the ability of long-distance cruising and long distance reliability because of the diesel engine. The excellent performances of this plug-in hybrid boat system are described. Keywords: electric boat, plug-in hybrid, PHEB from a grid. One single propeller is driven by either electric motor or diesel engine (65 kW). The 1 Introduction electric motor can be used as a generator also. We have already made a plug-in hybrid boat (length of 22 ft) driven by an electric motor and a 2 PHEB-2 diesel engine [1]. We have named this proto-type In principle, to spread this type of PHEB-1, it is boat as “Plug-in hybrid electric boat-1” or PHEB- necessary to modify used boat instead of new one, 1. because the quantity is important to contribute to the energy saving and clean the environment. The way The PHEB-1 system was produced based on our to utilize used boats results better cost merit than past feasibility studies and experimental new boat.